Notes on Langston’s inspirations

  • He didn't live with all his parents
  • He had a sad childhood
  • He was respected by his (white) peers in school
  • He thought that being (black) would make life hard for him
  • He had a miserable life making money
  • He tried to pay for his college money by being a bus boy
  • He used his poetry to show himself things like themes in racism
  • He went to college in 1925
  • He graduated in 1929
  • He was a yearbook editor in his senior year of high school
  • He did well academicaly
  • He had a thing for poetry
  • He had his poems edited by W.E.B Du Bois
  • He spent six months in paris
  • He went to college, started, and then ran out of money so he had to quit
  • He lived with his mom
  • He had a man named carl van vechten published his volume of verse. hughes's first book the weary blues
  • He wrote an essay that won in a crisis literary contest
  • He had many publishers enjoy and publish his poems
  • he won many prizes for a book on improving race relations
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  • Langston belived that poets can express themselves any way they want...
  • he was not afraid to express how he felt while writing...
  • he was a optemist...
  • he saw the world through different points of views...
  • langston hughes wrote alot of poems...
  • He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania ...
  • in Lincoln, Illinois, langston Hughes began writing poetry...
  • langston Hughes wrote eleven plays...
  • Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer...
  • Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family...
  • His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing...
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers. would become his most famous poem...
  • traveled the African coast as far south as Angola at age twenty-one, in summer 1923...
  • He wrote of the complexities of this experience in several venues...
  • Hughes joined the assembly of Poetry of the Negro, at the Howard University...
  • he attend the seminal Mbari African Writers Conference at Makerere University College in June 1962...
  • Hughes got the idea to assemble an anthology of African writing for US publication...
  • Hughes received a letter from the lively black-oriented Johannesburg magazine Drum asking if he would serve as one of three judges for a continent-wide short-story contest...
  • Hughes had a problem placing his work with his longtime publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
  • Hughes was a committed internationalist throughout his life...
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  • Hughes first published "My People" in 1923...
  • black gays and lesbians embrace Langston Hughes as part of their community...
  • the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal...
  • He had known rivers, ditches, dives; had known hustlers, winos, dreamers, and old Black mothers of enormous dignity and strength. He spoke of these things, and others, in 62 major works...
  • he died on May 22, 1967...
  • before his 1927 address to the Whitman Foundation, he had published his second book of poems...
  • ("And Blues") are "written after the manner of the Negro folk-songs known as Blues...
  • The Weary Blues had brought the twenty-four-year-old Hughes national attention, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive...
  • It was over the question of his representations of African Americans that readers grew heated...
  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature and is even missing from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature...
  • ("Glory! Hallelujah!") contains nine of his poems patterned after spirituals, with singers calling out to God...
  • his parents wer devorced...
  • he lived with his grandmother till he was 12...
  • he lived with his mother till the end of highschool...
  • after he finished college he moved to harlem...
  • langston hughes published more than 40 books...
  • he lived till he was sixty five...
  • One of Hughes' essays showed up in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
  • It talked about Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration,"...
  • He wrote in an essay that spoke about, younger Negro artists that intend to express their individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame...
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  • Hughes moved more to the center politically during world war two...
  • During a year (1932-1933) spent in the Soviet Union he wrote his most radical verse...
  • he wrote a play called mullato, based on the twinned themes of miscegenation and parental rejection, that opened on Broadway in 1935...
  • Hughes wrote other plays, including comedies such as little ham (1936) and a historical drama, emperor of haiti (1936)...
  • Hughes denied that he had ever been a party member, but conceded that some of his radical verse had been "ill-advised"...
  • Hughes always remained loyal to the principles he had laid down for the younger black writers...
  • He could sometimes be bitter...
  • his art is generally overwhelmed by a keen sense of the ideal and by a profound love of humanity, especially "black Americans"...
  • he also wrote a commissioned history of the NAACP...
  • he wrote a text of a much praised pictorial history of black America...
  • his books inspired a musical show, "simply heaven" (1957), that met with some success...
  • his love of gospel music led to other some good stage efforts...
  • He became very prosperous...
  • he always had to work hard for his "measure of prosperity" and sometimes called himself a 'literary sharecropper’ (with a good cause)...
  • he broke new ground with verse accented by the discordant nature of the new bebop jazz...
  • hughes worked with many people...
  • he otained many awards...
  • he was a suporter of bisexual & homosexuality...
  • he loved writing poems...
  • Langston hughes despiesd racism...
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